“He long ago set out a very specific and detailed methodology for stripping away the most basic human rights protections, to silence and ultimately disappear LGBT people,” Pam Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a statement.

“Unfortunately, he found willing accomplices and fertile ground in Uganda.”

Some have argued that the anti-gay bill is part of an effort to distract Ugandans from government corruption.

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